Example sentences of "of [noun prp] [prep] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In Gloucestershire the average man in the vale , situated between the Cotswold Edge and the river Severn , was half as much again better off as in the Forest of Dean across the river ( see Table 2.2 ) . |
| 2 | Reading , by the early nineteenth century , was receiving coal from the Midlands via the Oxford Canal and from the Forest of Dean via the Kennet and Avon , but the main beneficiaries were the inland coalfields themselves and the areas adjacent to them . |
| 3 | With the Malvern Hill rising to the north ; the Wye Valley and rolling Herefordshire stretching to the Welsh borders to the west ; the secret Royal Forest of Dean to the South ; and the Severn Vale , Gloucester , Cheltenham and the Cotswolds to the east ; surely Newent must be the centre of England at its best . |
| 4 | It was on ‘ evidence ’ such as this that a Gloucestershire jury on 22 May 1300 reduced the Forest of Dean to the king 's demesne lands and woods . |
| 5 | The office of Surveyor-General of Woods and Forests , created in the eighteenth century , has been discontinued , but ‘ Deputy Surveyors ’ manage the New Forest and the Forest of Dean for the Forestry Commissioners . |
| 6 | Amber is said to have her eyes on the plum part of Beatrice in the screen version of Dante 's Divine Comedy– . |
| 7 | And a ‘ Lady residing in a healthy part of Inverness near the school wishes a LITTLE GIRL to live with her . |
| 8 | Robert Van Lierop of Vanuatu in the West Pacific and chairman of the group , told the delegates that nations like his ‘ do not have the luxury of waiting for conclusive proof ’ of global warming . |
| 9 | BCRS wish to thank Mr Graham Vincent of Wolverhampton for the donation to the Society of 6 photographs of stations on the BCR , taken in 1942 . |
| 10 | The new VMSclusters fully supports the use of FDDI as a network backbone interconnecting clusters nodes , and support for native FDDI adaptors as a cluster interconnect is promised . |
| 11 | In the early stages , however , Commodore believes that it needs to ensure a broad range of titles are available both to support the positioning of CDTV as a family leisure platform and to generate the initial installed base which will itself encourage the third party publishing on which the future of CDTV depends . |
| 12 | Between 1179 and 1184 William the Englishman completed the work begun by William of Sens in the choir , eastern transepts , and presbytery , and designed and built the Trinity chapel as a mausoleum for the relics of St Thomas Becket ( d . |
| 13 | But I fancy that if I found myself on the field of Waterloo with a foot missing , or in a dentist 's chair without benefit of anaesthetic — a future form of laudanum — or faced with a work-situation in which my family were slowly being starved and degraded , then my conclusions might reasonably be the same . ) |
| 14 | Situated 300 yards across the road from the white sandy beach of Jandia in the south-west of Fuerteventura. 5 mins from Morro Jable . |
| 15 | ( Another member of the Russell family , Lord Charles , used his influence as the Queen 's Serjeant-at-Arms to get William Hale White 's father the position of Door-Keeper to the House of Commons . ) |
| 16 | With all Scotland quiet as a flat calm under his hand , he wants us to be quiet too , and let be the Mackinnons and the Maclaines of Lochbuie for a year or three . ’ |
| 17 | they 're no different from any other ICI employee — energetic , enthusiastic , ingenious and deeply committed to the future of their business and of ICI as a whole . |
| 18 | Harcourt 's reasons for fleeing Normandy are not entirely clear : he was at odds with the Comte of Tancarville over the office of Chamberlain of Normandy , and he appears to have had personal grievances against Philip VI . |
| 19 | Roedean stands high on the cliffs to the east of Brighton on the coast road which leads inevitably , as all roads do , to Peacehaven . |
| 20 | Non-League Woking 's reward , if they see off the challenge of Brighton in a replay , will be a home tie against another south coast team — Portsmouth . |
| 21 | The centre of both versions had the arms of Guildford on a shield within a start , enclosed in a band carrying the battalion 's title . |
| 22 | In this chapter , I have tried to assess the provisions of WFP in the light of the financial management agenda that existed at the end of 1988. 1 have endeavoured to look at the principles behind its proposals , rather than the detailed systems requirements necessary to make them work . |
| 23 | You use Top Mere Road to climb out of Kettlewell to a cairn at Cam Head before an old drove route drops you sharply into Starbotton to the inevitable pub . |
| 24 | Univel Inc said its price cuts last week ( see front page ) removed one of the last barriers to the rapid adoption of Unix-on-Intel as a client/server solution . |
| 25 | The long blockade of the French fleet , the shifting alliances in the Mediterranean and the Middle East , the war with America , the Baltic and East India convoys , the movements of power in the Caribbean , the capture of Mauritius from the French — in these and other historical situations Jack Aubrey and his surgeon are variously involved , always as unmistakable individuals , never in any way distorting the known course of history . |
| 26 | This presents the powerful neighbouring country of Guambia with the opportunity to invade the island , under the pretext of a request for assistance from the royal family . |
| 27 | The retention of Balcerowicz in the government was considered essential to reassure Western creditors . |
| 28 | And the chairman of selectors , whose decision to pick South African rebel Mike Gatting instead of Gower for the winter tour of India sparked a storm of protest , warned : ‘ These people may have won the first battle , but they are approaching a lee shore and there are plenty of rocks on that shore . |
| 29 | After the cinema he had tea , walked the streets for an hour , had a couple of Guinnesses in a pub to keep out the sharp evening air , and ate a biriani . |
| 30 | For example , the experimental Peckham Health Centre ( opened in 1926 in the London suburb of Peckham as a community centre dedicated to the study and maintenance of the conditions necessary for health ) found that when it re-opened after the War only about half the original members ' families remained in the area . |